THE LOVE YOUR MELON BLOG

When a child is diagnosed with cancer, life is turned upside-down for the entire family. Daily necessities and tasks such as work, cooking meals, grocery shopping and laundry are extremely difficult to balance both financially and emotionally as treatment becomes a family’s primary concern.

Staying in the hospital can be very difficult for children and teenagers and their families. During this challenging time, often the simplest things are the most comforting, such as a warm hat, a soft blanket or a note of encouragement.

PAB’S PACKS creates packs filled with comfort items to support children and teens during their stay in the hospital. Founded by two best friends who both experienced long days in the hospital as teenagers, this organization is determined to make hospital stays better for other children and teens.

We are proud to partner with PAB’S PACKS to spread hope and encouragement to more superheroes around the country. This year, we are funding 500 packs, complete with a Love Your Melon beanie in each pack!

Check out our cobranded Love Your Melon + PAB’S PACKS beanie (pictured above) - a beanie that shows our collaboration and shared commitment to make a difference in children’s lives. To create a cobranded beanie for your organization, team or company, check out our brand new Custom Beanie Program!

Every year, thousands of children and adults battling life-threatening cancers depend on a bone marrow transplant in order to save their lives. Through Be The Match’s registry, more and more of these individuals are able to find their match and receive their life-saving transplant.

When a child is diagnosed with cancer, the entire family is affected. Every family in this difficult situation needs support regardless of their socioeconomic status. This belief is at the core of Jacob’s Heart, an incredible organization dedicated to providing family-centered care for the emotional, practical and financial struggles of families and children battling cancer.

Every year, thousands of children and adults battling bone and blood cancers wait for a bone marrow match to deliver a life-saving transplant. Often, the right match exists, but it must be found before it is too late - this is why the bone marrow registry is so important.

Last week on Superhero Day, along with giving over 11,000 beanies, Love Your Melon launched a new partnership with Be The Match to host on-campus swab drives so that more patients with blood and bone cancers can find their cure! Be The Match is an organization dedicated to growing the bone marrow registry to help save the lives of individuals battling cancer.

Your incredible support allows us to collaborate with organizations who are a source of joy for families facing the most difficult time in their lives. Designing Dreams inspires hope, happiness and support for children battling cancer by making a child’s dream bedroom become a reality.

With your support, we are able to partner with incredible organizations who are leading the fight against pediatric cancer and supporting superheroes all around the country. One Summit is an organization that empowers children battling cancer to build resilience and courage. Through Climb for Courage events and mentorship with a Navy SEAL, children face and overcome different challenges and learn to apply their resilience to their pediatric cancer journey. Here’s one story of an incredible Climb for Courage kid.

Love Your Melon is partnering with The Max Cure Foundation’s Roar Beyond Barriers Program to support families as they endure the difficulties of pediatric cancer treatment. This support helps ten families with basic necessities, emergency funds and simply to communicate that they are not fighting alone.